Press Releases (Archive)

The Court of Cassation shocked us yesterday with the judges’ decision to recuse themselves from considering Alaa's appeal hearing regarding the Shoura Council case. Instead his case has been referred to another judicial circuit, scheduled for November 8th. We were given two unrelated, though equally baffling, explanations: one was that the judges had “cause for unease” (استشعر الحرج) with regard to the case. The other was that the court’s schedule was overcrowded. The hearing date for Alaa's appeal has been set for months.

Today marks the start of a new, intensive campaign for Alaa that will run to the 19th of October: 25 Days to #FreeAlaa

There are two critical dates coming up that will determine whether Alaa is going to spend more years in prison or if there could be hope for his release.

30th of September: The defendants in the case known as ‘Insulting the Judiciary’ will be sentenced. If found guilty the sentence can be anything between a fine and four years in a maximum security prison.

Alaa Abdel Fattah's family asks: how can Sisi face the UN having violated its human rights recommendations

As he addresses the UN general assembly today, does Sisi even remember that the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (established by the UN Human Rights Council) adopted an opinion, on the 19th of April 2016, that the imprisonment of Alaa Abdel Fattah is arbitrary detention.

Alaa Abd El Fattah and Ahmad Abdelrahman have been in jail for a month. Their case was referred to the Criminal Court 20 days ago, but till now lawyers have not gained access to the case file, nor have we been able to find out which district court will try them, or when.

It took the Prosecutor's Office 2 weeks to investigate the case and refer it, but it's taken them 3 weeks to send the case file from the Prosecutor's office to the Court - and we don't yet know whether the file is complete and correct.

Alaa Abd El Fattah and Ahmad Abdelrahman have been in jail for a month. Their case was referred to the Criminal Court 20 days ago, but till now lawyers have not gained access to the case file, nor have we been able to find out which district court will try them, or when.

It took the Prosecutor's Office 2 weeks to investigate the case and refer it, but it's taken them 3 weeks to send the case file from the Prosecutor's office to the Court - and we don't yet know whether the file is complete and correct.

A joint statement: more than 47 protesters were arrested, including nine members of "No to Military Trials for Civilians" group, two of whom are members of The National Community of Human Rights. All were arrested for demonstrating peacefully against the sanctioning of military trials in the current draft constitution